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An Alabama mayor and City Council have declared God “owner” of the city they represent. According to an opinion piece in The (Marion County) Journal Record praising the ceremonial designation, Mayor Randy Price successfully pushed City Council...

A church videographer is accused of repeatedly molesting two girls at their South Carolina church. Gilbert Broyles admitted to church leaders that he molested the girls, ages 4 and 6, in November and December in the audio-visual room at...

The holiday headlines blared without a hint of distrust: “End of War” and “Mission Ends” and “U.S. formally ends the war in Afghanistan,” as the U.S. government and Nato celebrated the alleged end of the longest war in American history....

Well-known U.S. criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz has vowed to seek the disbarment of two lawyers representing a woman who has accused him of sexually abusing her when she was underage. But legal experts said he faces an uphill battle. In...

Two New York City police officers were shot and wounded on Monday, officials said, weeks after two officers were shot dead as they sat in their patrol car. The New York Police Department said the officers were responding to a reported robbery in...

Two New York City police officers were shot and taken to a local hospital, police said on Monday night. The New York Police Department said the officers were responding to a reported robbery in the Bronx when the shooting occurred. The...

A photo posted on Facebook depicting what Arizona officials said may have been a family of sasquatches, attracting hundreds of comments from skeptics and believers alike, was just a joke, authorities said on Monday. The Arizona Department of...

The former governor of Alaska said animal welfare group Peta had failed to censure Ellen DeGeneres and Mayor Bill de Blasio for animal-related lapses Sarah Palin fired another shot in her unlikely war of words with the activist group People for...

The mother of Eric Garner , the 43-year-old Staten Island man who died after a New York police officer put him in an unlawful chokehold, on Monday called for the resumption of weekly protests after a judge said he would hear oral arguments over...

Cleveland’s mayor says he doesn’t trust the state of Ohio to investigate why police shot and killed a 12-year-old black boy because he doesn’t think they handled a previous investigation properly. “I don’t think the state attorney general...

New York mayor chides officers who turned their backs during funerals for two slain detectives but commends NYPD for its work combatting crime in 2014 New York City’s mayor praised its police department for helping bring crime rates down in...

Sweeps by Arpaio’s criminal employment squad detain hundreds of people, but have been ruled ‘probably unconsitutional’ A federal judge has ordered sheriff Joe Arpaio to halt workplace raids which net undocumented people in Arizona, in the latest...

Bess Myerson, 90, the first Jewish Miss America and a frequent companion of the late New York Mayor Ed Koch who later fell from grace in a city scandal, has died after a long battle with dementia. The Bronx-born Myerson, who served as...

A Kentucky police officer is recovering from injuries after accidentally shooting himself in an elevator, authorities said over the weekend. Cincinnati police told WCPO that Erlanger Officer Darryl Jouett was heading back to his car after having...

A Presbyterian pastor in western Pennsylvania told National Public Radio that despite the fact that he finds himself sexually attracted to men, he is not homosexual. In a “Sunday Conversation” segment, Pastor Allan Edwards of the...